Dr.-Ing. Mahsa Moghadas

July 2018 – Dec 2018 INCOR - Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Jul 2017- Feb 2023 Ph.D. Thesis - Urban Flood Resilience: From Benchmarking Resilience to Accelerating Transformation Using Crowdsourcing Data

Lecture

Module “Urban Development” (lecture and seminar) in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering

Module “Spatial Decision Support System” (lecture and seminar) in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering

Module “Geoinformation and Spatial Development (Project)” in the Master's Program of Geodetic Engineering, “Geoinformation and Spatial Development”  

Education

PhD Engineering Urban Resilience and sustainable development, University of Bonn, Germany, 2023.

MSc. Environmental Management, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, 2017.

BEng. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Tehran, Iran, 2009.

Publication

Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Rajabifard, A., Koetter. T. (2023). The wisdom of crowds for improved disaster resilience: a near-real-time analysis of crowdsourced social media data on the 2021 flood in Germany. Geojournal (Accepted).

Moghadas, M., Rajabifard, A., Fekete, A., Kötter. T. (2022). A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information. International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(2):114. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11020114

Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T., Fekete, A., Moghadas, M., Alizadeh, M., Zebardast, E., Weiss, D., Basirat, M., Hutter, G. (2022). Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran. Cities, 125(June), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103642

Fekete. A., Asadzadeh. A., Ghafory-Ashtiany, M., Amini-Hosseini. K., Hetkäamper, C., Moghadas, M., Ostadtaghizadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2020) Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 49,101635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101635

Moghadas, M., Asadzadeh, A., Vafeidis A., Fekete, A., Kötter, T. (2019). A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 35,101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101069

Fekete. A., Asadzadeh. A., Moghadas, M. (2019) INCOR Basic Infrastructures and Services for Enhancing Inclusive Community Disaster Resilience in Iran. Final technical report of the project definition phase, Integrative Risk and Security Research, 2/2019, 64 pages.

Moghadas, M. (2019, July). The role of digital volunteerism and volunteered Geographic Information in smart resilient cities. Presentation at the AGIT 2019, The Spatial View in Salzburg, Austria.

Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T., Birkmann, J., Weiss, W., Moghadas, M. (2017, August). Toward Understanding Community Disaster Resilience: Proposing a Comprehensive Methodology. Paper presented at the Social Progress for Resilient Regions, ERSA 57^th Congress, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2018) A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain.

Moghadas, M., Fekete, A., Asadzadeh, A., Kötter, T. (2018) Measuring urban disaster resilience: The context of flood hazard in city of Tehran, published in EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 20, EGU2018-148-2, April 2018, Viena, Austria.

Asadzadeh, A., Moghadas. M., Kötter. T., Fekete. A. (2018) Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement, abstract published in 11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) Congress, Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, December 10-11-12, Barcelona, Spain. 

Academic Experience